He explains that Alfredo’s affair with a woman of Violetta’s reputation is a threat to his daughter’s marriage and begs Violetta to leave Alfredo forever. He tells her that he has a daughter who is currently engaged to a young man from a respectable family. After he has left, Alfredo’s father, Giorgio Germont, pays a visit to Violetta. Alfredo is surprised to learn that Violetta has been secretly selling off her possessions in Paris to pay for their living expenses, and, disturbed by this, he departs for Paris to raise enough money to buy back Violetta’s belongings. Violetta has renounced her life as a Parisian courtesan and is now living happily in the country with Alfredo. Later, when alone, she ponders the possibility of finding true love, then laughs off the idea, declaring that her life will remain a whirl of pleasure. Violetta gently rebuffs him but invites him to call on her the next day. Alfredo tells her that he has adored her since he first set eyes on her, and proclaims that no one could ever love her as much as he now does. While entertaining members of the demi-monde of French society in her Parisian home, the beautiful but frail courtesan Violetta Valéry is introduced to Alfredo Germont, a young man from Provence. She is reunited with him at last, but it is too late… and she dies in his arms. Back in Paris, Violetta suffers Alfredo’s anger and a fatal attack of tuberculosis. However his father persuades her to give up Alfredo, but not to tell him that the reason is to save his family’s honour. Alfredo woos the courtesan Violetta into giving up her madcap Paris life to be with him alone.
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